Keep them evenly moist, which is just a little wetter than damp. They don't mind wet feet, as long as there is some air in the soil. Mulch if you wish. A case can usually be made for not mulching unless it's a necessity to get you from opportunity to opportunity when it comes to watering, but with this plant's tolerance for wet feet, it doesn't matter. Al

Oh I think the blooms are cool! Caladiums are aroids and have blooms similar to other aroids like jack-in-the-pulpits, etc. They can be removed if desired but I left mine on and didn't see any appreciable change in the amount and size of later leaves.

Cheryl, I wanted to say something about your comment on losing bare root plants, etc. You know, it's funny, but most of the time I lose those plants, too. However, the really odd thing is that sometimes they'll come up a year, 2 years, or 3 years later, after I thought they had died. This happened with my lily of the valley pips. I bought them cheap at HD and planted them about 4 years ago. Just last year, I got 2 LV sprouts! This year, I have 4! It's just amazing how these things really do want to survive so much that they surprise us like that. So, keep on the look out, you may see something one of these days, and have to dig back into the depths of your memory to recall what you planted many moons ago. Susan

Almost any tuber that grows from "eyes" can be cut up as long as each piece contains an "eye," sort of like you do potatoes to plant them. I just cut up a banana corm that had mostly rotted into several pieces with an eye and now three of them have come up, and since the fourth eye hadn't really broken out yet, I think it will come up sometime. Cannas are the same way, as are Jerusalem artichokes and gingers. I have dug up whole beds of ginger and canna, but still had to remove new shoots that came up from tiny pieces left behind. But speaking of caladiums, I had a mice "Miss Muffett" last year that I rescued from an empty apartment's yard, where it was being constantly mowed down. It didn't come up this spring, so I dug down and found the corm had rotted all but one tiny little piece. I didn't think it would work, but I tossed that tiny piece into a little pot with something else and forgot about it until it came up this year. No doubt, it will take a few years to get large enough to be pretty again, but this is the third one I've had die and come back from a tiny piece left behind. ETA: After you cut them, be sure to let them cure for a couple of days before you plant, or you can plant them in dry sand and not water for a week or so.